Machine for forming paint or other similar material.



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APPLICATION FILED APR. 14, 1911.

Patented June 18, 1912.

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JOHN W. HASBURG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jane 18, 1912.

Application filed. April 14, 1911. Serial No. 621,048.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN IV. HAsBURo, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Forming Paint or other Similar Material, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for forming paint, or other similar material, deposited on a plate or palette, which is to be subsequently inclosed within a receptacle or package.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a machine which will shape or fashion a small mass of paint, or other like material, deposited upon a palette, or other plate, into a presentable and attractive article, thereby to improve its appearance and to increase its demand and salability.

Another object of my invention is to gen erally improve the construction of machines of this character.

Other and further objects of my invention will become readily apparent to persons skilled in the art from a consideration of the specification taken in conjunction with the drawings, wherein;

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine showing the base portion in sect-ion. Fig. 2 is an enlarged front elevation, showing the base port-ion broken away. Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section showing only a portion of the base. Fig. 4 is an enlarged plan view of the work-holding platen, taken on line 44 of Fig. 6, with a palette in place having a deposit, fashioned by the machine, thereon. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the forming tool or sweep. Fig. 6 is an enlarged broken-away detail, showing the relative positions of the tool and the palette carrying the paint deposit.

In all of the views the same reference characters indicate similar parts.

In my Patent No. 627,580, dated June 27th, 1899 I have described and claimed an advantageous and convenient package within which to inclose valuable mastic materials, intended for industrial uses, such as gold paints, and the like. The cover of such package is diaphanous in character, through which the contents may be inspected. It is desirable and highly important that the ma terial inclosed in such package shall present a neat and favorable appearance to the purchaser, and owing to the high cost of such material it is very important, from the manufacturers point of view, that the material to be inclosed in such packages, shall be uniform in quality and in form, and that the general configuration thereof shall be of such a character as to create a favorable impression of the quantity of material presented.

In the present embodiment of my invenand a frame 11. The base portion is preferably hollow, and slightly tapering toward the top, terminating in an angular portion 12 and provided with a base disk 13 at the bottom. The frame 11 provides two spindle bearings 14 and 15, in vertical alinement for the spindle 16. The spindle 16 is made up of a perforated shaft 17, screw threaded as at 18 and 19 for the nuts 20, 21 which support the shaft 17 in the overlying sleeve 22. The sleeve is slotted, as at 23, for the set screw 24, to provide a positive drive for the compound spindle, and further to provide a means for holding the vertically adjustable aXial wire 25 in adjusted position.

To the lower end of the perforated shaft 17 is secured the tool, or sweep 26, by means of the set screw 27. The tool has preferably a downwardly curved, serrated face 28, to give to the product a cone-shape with a series of concentric depressions and elevations, or serrations, as shown in Figs. 4, and 6.

The frame 11 is provided, at its lower end, with a flat base plate, 11, and a downwardly projecting perforated hub 29 to afford a bearing for the shaft 30. To the top end of the shaft 30 is secured a palette-holding plate, or platen 31, countersunk slightly as at 32, thereby, providing ribs 32 to receive the square palette 33 which carries the paint deposit 34. The rib at the front edge of the countersink is cut away as at 35 to admit of the palette being easily inserted between the guiding ribs 32 bounding the countersunk part. A notch 36 is cut through the platen, or plate 31, to permit access to the edge of the palette in the process of placing it in position to be operated upon and when removing it.

A foot lever, 37, is pivoted in the base frame 10, as at 38, its inwardly projecting end being normally depressed by a spring 39. The inner end of the lever 37, is con nected to the vertical shaft 30 by means of the link 40 as at 41, and 42, so that when tion the machine consists of a base part 10 the outer end of the lever 37 is depressed, as by the foot, the shaft 30 is raised. A set screw 42, in the bracket 43, is an adjustable, positive means for limiting the extreme upward excursion of the shaft 30 and the spring 39 returns it to position determined by the collar 44 when pressure is removed. Shaft 30 is provided with a spline 45 to prevent its rotation. The spindle 16 may be constantly rotated by power applied to pulley 46 which is secured thereto, and the spindle is maintained in its bearings by collars 47 and 48, or the spindle may be intermittently rotated as by hand, if de sired.

When the palette 33, which may be a plate of glass, usually about three inches square, with its deposit of paint 34, crudely applied thereto, and which should be somewhat in excess in quantity of that left remaining on the palette after the machine has operated upon it, is placed within the de pression provided by the countersink with-- in the platen 31, the foot is applied to the lever 37 whereby the shaft 30 is raised until the glass palette 33 is brought into contact with the end of the spacing stop-wire 25, thereby permitting a definite space to intervene between the upper surface of the palette and the under, preferably corrugated, edge 28 of the tool 26. The sweep of the tool 26 over the deposit 34 removes any excess of material, which adheres to the forward edge of the tool and may be subsequently removed, and it forms the deposit mto a series of concentrlc grooves and ridges, or serrations, giving to the product an attractive, distinctive appearance, and thus enhances its value. Vertical adjustment of the stop-wire 25 will vary the thickness and quantity of the deposit left upon the palette, and this effect is independentof the thickness of the palette. After the tool, or sweep 26, has made one or two revolutions, pressure upon the treadle 37 may be removed when the spring 39 will return the parts to the positions shown in Fig. 1. The palettes may be quickly inserted within the holder 31, the notch 36 permitting access to the palette, and the ribs 32 preventing it from being rotated.

While I have herein described a particular embodiment of my invention many changes may be made therein without dc parture from the spirit of the claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim is;

1. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a rotatable spindle, a tool secured to one end and projecting laterally from the axis thereof, a plate holder, carrying a plate, or palette, means for relatively moving said 'tool and plate, and axially adjustable means carried by said spindle controlled by the confronting sirface of said plate, for limiting said mo 'ement. I;

2. In a machine of the class describ d, the combination of a, rotatable spindle, longitudinally fixed, a tool secured to one end and projecting laterally from the axis thereof, a vertically movable plate holder, carrying a plate, means for vertically moving said plate holder and plate, and an adjustable stop carried by and coaxially ar- 3. In a machine of the class described, 4

the combination of a rotatable tool project ing laterally from its axis, in the nature of a sweep, a plate-bearing part, means for relatively moving said tool and plate-bearing part toward and from each other, and a stop carried by said spindle and coaxially arranged with the axis of said tool to limit said movement by contact with the confronting face of the plate to be carried by the plate bearing part.

4. In a machine of the class described a rotatable tool projecting laterally from its axis and provided with a working edge, ,a plate bearing part for carrying a flat platle, means for relatively moving said tool and plate bearing part toward and from each other, whereby said tool will form in a mass deposited upon said flat plate, a circumferentially uniform, but radially uneven, surface, and an adjustable stop controlled by the upper surface of the plate for varying the approach of said tool and plate to determine the thickness of the mass deposited on said plate.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN WV. HASBURG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, .D. G. 

